And I hear there is an imax theater for that

TODAY IS GUESTBLOGGER DAY! HOORAY! CUE THE BALLOONS AND CONFETTI!

today our guest is ERIC (last name withheld for privacy). 

You may notice these pictures are not scanned and are in black and white. I apoligize.  Eric made copies of them and I was going to scan them in, but low and behold my scanner is broken.

BUT! THE ENTRIES!

The first one looks really really cool in  color, but its still conceptually great. If you can't read it the bubble says "why are we here"

The second one  has a diagram printed out, pasted in diagrams of shapes that are 3d in real life, and boob drawings.

The Third one is an ad that was cut out and pasted into the great Erics journal. It pretty much looks alot cooler in black and white.

I like Eric, he writes well, and has a great mind. Plus he is really tall and adorable and sometimes when he talks he sounds like eyore a little bit. Its really really cute.

His final page entitled getbent is great. and is my favorite one. Starting from the bottom their is the meaning heavy picture of a gorrilla and a baby gorrilla and the big gorilla's eyes are covered with the word human.

Above that is a great silhoutte of a face that decends into a jellyfish like tale.

And above that is the words  " Loss Aversion"

"The pain of losing something is twice as strong as the joy of getting something if you make a bet and you must $1 if you lose, people tend to demand a $2 pay off if they win"

This is all entitled by the stenciled in words "GET BENT" 

I like Eric. I like this journal.  I hope you did too.

Normally all sorts of hooplah would accompany this post, but, seeing as how it is late, a school day, and I don't have alot to say, the hooplah ends here. 

But the post below has lots of GREAT hooplah. Including links to kiva, Jasmine Miller, and my thought blog. 

I am no longer a woman; just rippling muscalature

hi!

The post for today is a really thorough page from my journal that I actually worked on onight.

The words are saying alot of diffrent random things, which you could read if you would like, but focusing on the pictures: if you notice in the top right corner I have that dancing bacteria thing? In his hand he is balancing a ballerina, just fyi.

descending downward, in the middle of the page on the left hand side there is athat giant egg. Please enlarge picture to understand concept.

This is the idea: Recently I've become obsessed with layering so if you start at the bottom of the egg you should see a father yellign at his son (bear with me they are stick figures) and that scene being in a grocery store being pushed by another person, and that store being the ground for a huge boy playing soccer and inside the soccer ball and trees are diffrent worlds.


Further down you will see faces, some of the look horribly distorted. I'm trying to convey the idea of the face being made up by a series of drawers and some of them being pulled out. Alot of my imagination rquires larger canvases. The two undistorted faces are just faces that I tried to make look really goofy. I think I succeeded.

OTHER STUFF.
1. The blog has switched to monday, wednesday, friday updates instead of every day. They every day updates were interrupting my writing time and were not high quality. I was also worried about my wealth of journal pages.

2. I AM STILL ACCEPTING JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS. SEND SOMETHING IN AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS. I WILL NOT REJECT ANYONE. I WILL SIMPLY SCHEDUAL YOU. DO NOT BE SCARED. JUST SHARE.

3. Congratulations to all the gold key winners!

4. I have lots of lovely talented friends and I forget that all the time. One especially important talented friend is Jasmine, or j.y miller shes great. click on here and listen to her sing.

5. I still love kiva.org :]

6. If you are intrested in reading about my life/responsibilites of man to his society please click here.

7. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

Today was a day for tea and porches.

Ok! Journals!  I am trying to upload really ugly ones so you understand how awkward journals can look. And then. maybe more people will submit and it'll be great.

if you like to be interviewed I would like to know. I love interviewing. 

Anyways. I know its late today. I'm sorry so so sorry I had a big problem with my internet/computer and I didn't think anyone would mind. I mean. its a friday. who is really sitting at home waiting for me to update ( I sort of hope there is really someone like that out there).

Today I watched degrassi.

Today bryce gave me a paper heart

Today I spent thirty minutes soaking fruit in juice

Today I watched Drumline

Today I woman's weave saved her life.

Today while walking into school I found a penny, heads up, a good day.

Today I recieved a letter.

Today was a good day, a really great day.

I have alot to say, I have alot to do, I have alot to dream and it makes me feel tired and maybe a little bit upset, and I'm not sure why and so I'm going to make instant coffee andcurl up in blankets in my backyard and look into the sky. 

Your mom wants to go out drinking, want to come?

My dad burst into my room this morning, asking me the above question. It was a good morning. (I'm kidding. He went to work, not to the bar.)

Anyways. This morning I woke up several times, and each time I would push myself back into sleep, and as a result I remember SO MANY dreams. Each one ranged from mildly macrabe to incredibly sinister (the last one involved sugar creek muggings and I was so scared that I just gave up on sleep)

I've heard alot of people talk about lucid dreams, and I never understood the concept correctly because I realize I'm dreaming all the time, but if I try and change the course of the dream I just wake up, but today I remember this moment I had in the middle of a dream where I understood I was a dream and distorted the faces of everyone around me. Then I changed into a giant bird.

But enough pillow talk! I've reinvested my faith in my trusty scanner, and hopefully, it will work. So. To begin. This is a scanned in view of yesterday's post:

I finally go it up (thats what she said) and I had to try like 6 times. So. Appreciate. It doesn't look like this anymore and I don't know how happy I am with that but when I'm finished with it you won't even know what you're looking at.

And I have a couple new things to share with this post like one of my first journals. It is important for everyone looking at this journal to know that THOSE ARE NOT SWASTIKAS. THEY ARE HINDU RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS. NOT SWASTIKAS. I AM NOT A NAZI.

But, my mom gave me this journal when I started claires class and that was when I really really started journaling. Its divided into four sections and in each section you can see my progress as an artist.

Today I'm going to take something from the third section, a two page spread.











So once you recover from this great trilogy of images, look closer at them. They might be hard to read, but all the typed text can be found at my old xanga (www.xanga.com/ostrichface). By typed I mean bolded text, the regularly typed text was something I printed out from y private computer journals, and it is important to understand that while I kept these journals I had a huge problem with empty space and this page drove me crazy because I couldn't obliterate it all.

Neha, I don't know if anyone else is having that problem? On my computer I am able to enlarge them, but I will oook around see what the problem is and if its on my end. I am able to enlarge them on this computer and my mac, but I'll leave my ip address and see if thats still true.

And! Another question for everyone reading. I really really am interested in the process of how you dream, dreams you've expieranced, really anything about sleep you are willing to share. I also understand that you can't comment without an account which is a shame, so email or facebook your answer to me. I'm interested.